O·ver·has·ty a. Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O*ver*has*ti*ly adv. -- O*ver*has*ti*ness, n.
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overhasty
adj : done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare;
"hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur
Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty
plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been
rather precipitate in deposing the king" [syn: hasty,
precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]